Two jailbirds who just want out of the cage.
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
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Classical in form, effortless, comic and resolved.
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- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Gene WilderSkip Donahue
- Richard PryorHarry Monroe
- Georg Stanford BrownRory Schultebrand
- JoBeth WilliamsMeredith
- Miguel Ángel SuárezJesus Ramirez
- Craig T. NelsonDeputy Ward Wilson
- Barry CorbinWarden Walter Beatty
- Charles WeldonBlade
- Nicolas CosterWarden Henry Sampson
- Joel BrooksLen Garber
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- Sidney PoitierDirector
- Bruce Jay FriedmanWriter
- Fred SchulerDirector of Photography
- Tom ScottOriginal Music Composer
- Harry KellerEditor
- Hannah WeinsteinProducer
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